Parashat Lech Lecha - Why is G-d testing us with hard challenges? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Alon Anava’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

every person throughout their life finds themsel in a place that nothing is moving it can be in your spiritual growth that you feel that you're in the same place it feels like you H can't get past a certain point it can be in business it can be in relationships it can be in so many different things that you find yourself standing in the same place nothing is moving no success uh like as if not nothing is moving everything is stuck and it seems that there's no meaning or no results to your efforts and that can happen like I said in many different things and then of course comes a big question so what's the point of what I'm doing or why am I putting any or am I even in the right way is everything that I do worth it and one should not get to a point or a lot of people have that fear that they will get to that point that will come the day at the end of their life and they look back at their life and say uh I didn't do anything or I wasn't successful or I didn't achieve what I wanted and I had goals and aspirations and desires and this question can be asked by most people but I know for a fact that a lot

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